We Still Have the Telephone

Résumé du livre

Both moving and deeply funny, We Still Have the Telephone exhibits Van Horn's long-practised miniaturist skills as an artist and her ethnographic sense of curiosity as a writer. In this mosaic portrait of a singular everywoman, cultural identity is on a par with ordinary objects; anecdotes from a bygone era jostle with those of sometimes-strange tokens of love given in a long-distance relationship. Describing a life laid out in detail, quietly registering the fuzziness of the line between eccentricity and madness, Van Horn signs one of her most accomplished literary works to date.